Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Ukraine: Russian Forces’ Trail of Death in Bucha
Russian forces committed a litany of apparent war crimes during their occupation of Bucha, a town about 30 kilometers northwest of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, from March 4 to 31, 2022, Human Rights Watch said in a detailed report released today. Human Rights Watch researchers who worked in Bucha from April 4 to 10, days after Russian forces...
Refugees in Europe Need Mental Health Support
Click to expand Image Ukrainians who have fled the war wait outside an NGO-run center that helps refugees with urgent placement and documents on March 23, 2022 in Paris, France. © 2022 AP Photo/Francois Mori “If your mental health is not good, how are you supposed to move forward?”, said Rafi (not his real name), a young Afghan man who was...
UK Plan to Ship Asylum Seekers to Rwanda is Cruelty Itself
Click to expand Image British Home Secretary Priti Patel (L), and Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Vincent Biruta sign an agreement at the Kigali Convention Center in Kigali, Rwanda, April 14, 2022. © 2022 Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP via Getty Images Shirking its obligations to persons seeking protection at its shores,...
IMF/World Bank: Targeted Safety Net Programs Fall Short on Rights Protection
Click to expand Image A woman and her child receive relief goods distributed by a community service center in Kathmandu, Nepal on June 4, 2021. © 2021 Sipa USA via AP (Washington, DC, April 14, 2022) – Targeted social protection programs intended to cushion people from the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have only had limited success in...
Bulgaria: Free Online Textbooks for Ukrainian Refugees
Click to expand Image Refugee children from Ukraine at a temporary shelter in Krakow, Poland. March 15, 2022. © Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via AP (Brussels) – A Bulgarian firm has begun providing free access to online learning materials and textbooks for children who have fled Ukraine, Human Rights Watch said today. Other European telecommunications...
Russia: Government Shuts Down Human Rights Watch Office
Click to expand Image The headquarters of Russia’s Ministry of Justice in Moscow, December 4, 2017. © 2017 REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (Berlin) – Russia’s Justice Ministry on April 8, 2022 canceled the registration of Human Rights Watch, along with Amnesty International and 13 other offices of foreign nongovernmental organizations and...
Greece Using Other Migrants to Expel Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image Women migrants from Afghanistan hold signs that read “Stop pushbacks” during a rally in Athens against Greece’s pushbacks of migrants and asylum seekers at the border with Turkey. February 6, 2022. © 2022 Dimitris Aspiotis/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images (Athens) – Greek security forces are employing third...
Belarus Blocks Human Rights Watch Website
Click to expand Image A woman uses her mobile phone in downtown Minsk on November 15, 2019. © 2019 Sergei GAPON / AFP via Getty Images On April 5, Belarus’s prosecutor general announced that Human Rights Watch’s website had been blocked, following an order by the Minsk City Prosecutor’s office. At the time of writing, Human...
EU: Press Vietnam to Improve Rights Record
Click to expand Image Vietnamese Political Detainees and Prisoners, from upper left: Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Thi Tam, Trinh Ba Phuong, Pham Doan Trang, Le Trong Hung; lower left: Nguyen Tuong Thuy, Nguyen Thuy Hanh, Pham Chi Thanh, Do Nam Trung, Can Thi Theu and Trinh Ba Tu. © 2021 Private (Brussels) – The European Union should call on Vietnam to...
Migrants, Asylum Seekers Locked Up in Ukraine
Click to expand Image The Zhuravychi Migrant Accommodation Center. © 2022 Global Detention Project (Berlin) – Scores of migrants who had been arbitrarily detained in Ukraine remain locked up there and are at heightened risk amid the hostilities, including military activity in the vicinity, Human Rights Watch said today. Ukrainian authorities...
